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Definition of Oddly
1. Adverb. In a manner differing from the usual or expected. "He's behaving rather peculiarly"
2. Adverb. In a strange manner. "A queerly inscribed sheet of paper"
Definition of Oddly
1. adv. In an odd manner; unevently.
Definition of Oddly
1. Adverb. In an odd manner; unevenly. ¹
2. Adverb. In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously. ¹
3. Adverb. In a manner measured by an odd number. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oddly
1. in an odd manner [adv]
Medical Definition of Oddly
1.
1. In an odd manner; unevently.
2. In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously. "A figure a little more oddly turned." "A great black substance,.. Very oddly shaped." (Swift)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Oddly
Literary usage of Oddly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New System of Arithmetick Theorical and Practical: Wherein the Science of by Alexander Malcolm (1730)
"Again, if there are but a Terms, the Sum is both oddly and evenly even : For
every Number, both oddly and evenly even, is the Produit of an odd Number, ..."
2. The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper (1898)
"... and which united to form a character, in which excessive energy and the most
meek submission to the will of Providence were oddly enough combined. ..."
3. New English and Italian Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary by John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti (1889)
"... ose sir.inpi'iy and ill, estrange; vn and vrf. to do string» thing», lo act
oddly and unaccountably, to go off, ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... oddly for taste in the Upper and with characters in humble life, and he
Mississippi Valley.—LANG, ANDREW, 1889, mingled sentiment and sensation with a ..."
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